Volunteer

 Over 250 active volunteers support our small staff and enable TFC to provide over 6,500 patient encounters every year. 

Volunteers are the foundation of TFC; volunteers are the reason that TFC exists; volunteers are the reason TFC is able to provide high-quality medical, dental, psychiatric, and pharmaceutical care to patients.  Volunteers are the reason that TFC is able to offer medically indigent patients care that they would not otherwise receive.

Volunteers at TFC range from clinicians (doctors, dentists, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, nurses, dental hygienists, physical therapists, pharmacists, nutritionists) to lay people.  Volunteers provide the clinical visits; volunteers answer the phones; volunteers conduct eligibility screenings; volunteers translate for Spanish-speaking patients.  Some volunteers work once a week, while others work once a month or once a quarter.

If you do not feel you are able to enlist as a regular volunteer, there are many ways to help.  Here are a few suggestions:

• Would you, your club or your church group be willing to provide a meal for evening clinic volunteers once a quarter?  Our doctors and dentists come directly from work, and we support their volunteer efforts by providing them a meal for that evening.
• Can your scout troop, Sunday school class or office group collect items for the dental clinic to provide home care kits for our patients?  Items such as dental floss, tooth paste and toothbrushes are always needed.
• Are you available to help with office work, answer the phone, or prepare mailings?

TFC invites you to consider joining our team as a volunteer.  Contact our Volunteer Coordinator, Lisa Clark, for more information.